Re: gEDA-user: going multi core

2011-01-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 07:36 +, Peter TB Brett wrote: > - Original message - > > just one such core. Can I expect a spectacular speed-up of gschem > > and pcb? Or are they throttled by the graphic card anyway? > > gschem is a single-threaded application. It runs on one core, no matter

Re: gEDA-user: going multi core

2011-01-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
- Original message - > just one such core. Can I expect a spectacular speed-up of gschem > and pcb? Or are they throttled by the graphic card anyway? gschem is a single-threaded application. It runs on one core, no matter how many you have. So no, don't expect a big speed up.

Re: gEDA-user: going multi core

2011-01-26 Thread George M. Gallant, Jr.
If the new system is anything like this list, you should expect a significant slowdown as the CPUs argue amongst themselves as to who gets to do what, when and how not to do something. I have not seen a significant advantage to single process geda tools execution. I suspect that some of the backe

gEDA-user: going multi core

2011-01-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
There is going to be a new desktop on my desktop at work! It is going to be the the usual upgrade in computational power: More memory, more storage, more speed. Speed is supposed to be delivered by four cores (AMD athlon). My current desktop contains just one such core. Can I expect a spectacular